| Part of speech | common noun |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | /tal/ |
| Hyphenation | taal |
| Gender | historically feminine, nowadays also masculine |
| Plural | talen |
| Diminutive | |
|---|---|
| Singular | Plural |
| taaltje | taaltjes |
| Afrikaans | taal |
|---|---|
| Albanian | gjuhë |
| Catalan | idioma; llengua |
| Czech | jazyk; řeč; mluva |
| Danish | sprog |
| English | language; tongue |
| English (Old English) | spræc |
| Esperanto | lingvo |
| Faeroese | mál; tungumál |
| Finnish | kieli |
| French | langue |
| German | Sprache |
| Greek | γλώσσα |
| Hawaiian | ʻōlelo |
| Hungarian | nyelv |
| Icelandic | tunga; tungumál; mál |
| Italian | lingua |
| Jamaican Patois | langwij |
| Latin | lingua |
| Low German | språke |
| Luxemburgish | Sprooch |
| Malay | bahasa |
| Norwegian | språk |
| Papiamento | abla; idioma; lenga |
| Portuguese | idioma; língua; linguagem |
| Romanian | limbă |
| Russian | язык |
| Saterland Frisian | Sproake |
| Spanish | lengua; lenguaje |
| Sranan | tongo |
| Swahili | lugha |
| Swedish | språk; tungomål |
| Thai | ภาษา |
| Ukrainian | мова |
| West Frisian | sprake; taal |